Re: “Add this to the list for improving education: teacher training” (June 3, Opinion):
The Seattle Instances editorial board misrepresents instructional analysis and promotes a deeply flawed analysis of instructor preparation.
The editorial leans closely on a report from the Nationwide Council on Instructor High quality, a corporation based by conservatives to reform instructor schooling. NCTQ’s rankings are based mostly on superficial opinions of syllabi and web sites — not classroom practices or pupil work — and fail to satisfy primary requirements of instructional analysis. Due to this, most instructor preparation applications in Washington — like many throughout the nation — refuse to willingly take part in NCTQ’s flawed course of.
The editorial spuriously claims that low pupil math scores mirror poor instructor preparation. However a long time of analysis present that whereas lecturers are crucial in-school consider pupil studying, as much as 60% of variation in take a look at scores stems from out-of-school situations like poverty, housing instability and entry to high-quality well being care. Standardized checks are sometimes a mirrored image of those group points greater than classroom instructing.
On the College of Washington, we take instructor preparation significantly — investing in robust faculty partnerships, modern pedagogy and sustained help for instructor candidates and alumni. Accountability issues. However let’s floor it in sound analysis and the realities of our lecture rooms and communities.
Dean Wayne Au, UW Bothell College of Instructional Research; Dean Mia Tuan, UW School of Training; Dean Rachel Endo, UW Tacoma College of Training
